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In This Issue 15Th General Assembly of Ica President's Report www.icaci.org biannual newsletter | number :: numéro 55 | december :: dècembre 2010 president’s report in this issue Dear Colleagues bles the complete newsletter and generates a This December 2010 PDF file. After it is checked and approved, Igor president’s report :: 01 issue of the newsletter generates two PDF versions for placing on the is published to again website – one for screen viewing and another for download and print. ICA Web masters Felix 15th general assembly bring the ICA commu- Ortag and Manuela Schmidt, at TU Wien in of ica :: 01 nity up-to-date with the Vienna, Austria then place these two PDF files activities that have onto the ICA wesite. In parallel, another digital from the editor :: 02 taken place that are version of the newsletter is transferred associated with the electronically by Igor to a printer in Hong Kong, Association, as well as providing complemen- 25th international cartographic where, initially, a proof is output for review. tary information that will be of interest to conference 2011 :: 04 This proof is checked by Hong Kong-based ICA friends of ICA. Editor, Igor Drecki is to be again Vice President Professor Zhilin Li. After congratulated with the publication of another ica news approval the newsletters are printed and great issue. dispatched to Professor Li who, with the children’s map award 2011 :: 03 It is worth noting how Igor is using the global assistance of students at the Hong Kong ica executive committee :: 04 reach of the Association to streamline the Polytechnic University, place the newsletters in ica news contributions :: 04 production, printing and distribution of the envelopes, which are then mailed from Hong 25 years ago... :: 04 newsletter, as well as reducing costs. Igor Kong to ICA members and associates. This map of the month 2010 exposé :: 05 receives copy and images electronically from illustrates the wonderful spirit of collaboration global contributors. He then edits and assem- > 02 profiles donna williams :: 06 geo-info :: 06 15th general assembly of ica esri :: 07 paris · france reports ica commissions :: 07 As we move inexorably towards the 2011 must participate and undertake some tasks. For cartographic meetings and events :: 12 International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in example, a new Executive Committee must be Paris (3-8 July, 2011), the administration of elected. Nominations for the positions of obituary :: 14 ICA turns towards the associated quadrennial President, Secretary-General & Treasurer, and General Assembly. Whilst the French organising seven Vice-Presidents must be received at least calendar :: 15 committee in Paris are efficiently proceeding five months before the first General Assembly with scientific, technical, social, exhibition, meeting in Paris (i.e. before 2 February 2011). ica affiliate members :: 15 accommodation and publishing aspects of the That date is also the deadline for national ICC (and associated workshops), ICA commit- members to submit bids to host the 2015 children’s map gallery :: 16 tees are engaged with responsibilities related to General Assembly and International Carto- the management of our association. graphic Conference: the decision on the The General Assembly of ICA has a number location of the 2015 General Assembly will be of purposes, and in order to carry them out, made by the General Assembly meeting in Palais des Congrès de Paris, close to Eiffel Tower and ICA members (who form the General Assembly) Paris. > 03 Champs-Elysées | Photography © Agence Sofiacome from the editor president’s report cont... between members of the international commu- University. The workshop was organised by Dr Walking through an art exhibition at a nity. It reflects upon what is truly an interna- Sebastien Caquard (Canada), co-chair of the national gallery we often marvel at the tional cartographic community, a community ICA Art and Cartography Working Group. artistry and workmanship of painters and dedicated to advancing cartography and Sebastien was assisted in the development and sculptors, at their vision and influence on GIScience and growing the Association. operation of the workshop by Associate the development of national identity. The following sections report on my activities Professor Laurene Vaughan (Australia). The Throughout history we have often referred since publication of the last newsletter. meeting brought-together around 20 partici- to them as those who spread the fame of pants who explored the theme of mapping our nation and our country well beyond its Outreach Programmes, Ho Chi Minh City, Montreal from a common database. Professor borders. We like to associate ourselves with Jacqueline Anderson, former Chair of the ICA them, the exemplary citizens of our Vietnam, and Jakarta, Indonesia Commission on Children and Cartography common motherland. The ICA ran two outreach education pro- attended the workshop. I presented a paper at However, we rarely consider cartogra- grammes under the ‘umbrella’ of the ICA the workshop, entitled The City as a MetroMap: phers and their work as worthwhile and Commission on Education and Training. The Envisioning Montreal. influential as the work of painters, workshops were conducted to facilitate composers, architects or writers. Why? Why technology transfer to colleagues in Ho Chi can’t a map or an atlas be considered as Minh City, Vietnam and Jakarta, Indonesia Spatial Excellence Awards, Melbourne, influential in building national identity as during July and August 2010. Australia paintings, music or poetry? The Ho Chi Minh City Workshop, 19-23 July The awards are held each year by the geospa- Cartography has the ability to encapsu- 2010, covered Cartographic Information tial sciences industry in Victoria, Australia. I late the conceptual, technological as well Systems (GIS with a cartographic emphasis), was invited to attend and represent ICA at this as artistic qualities of a nation, and Internet Mapping, Atlas production, Prepress event on 15 September 2010. translate them into cohesive and intuitive and Digital Printing. Presenters were Professor representations of its people and its László Zentai (Hungary) and Professor Vít ICA Commission on the Theory of environment. An example could be a Voženílek (Czech Republic). Manuela Schmidt national atlas that in a well researched, Cartography meeting, Hong Kong (TU Wien) and I contributed to the second innovative, original and aesthetically week of the course, which addressed Web ICA Vice President Zhilin Li organised the creative way represents the natural Cartography and its applications. It covered the workshop, which was held at Hong Kong environment we live in, who we are as a topics of Web mapping, Web 2.0 and the Polytechnic University, 23-24 September nation, where we came from and how we design and production of map mash-ups. 2010. Organisation was supported by the ICA are organised as a society. It informs and The second workshops were held in Jakarta, Commission on Theoretical Cartography, educates, enlightens and inspires. It Indonesia. In the first week the topics covered chaired by Dr Alexander Wolodtschenko. Also influences all generations and provides an presenting at the conference was ICA Vice amazing body of knowledge we can tap were Map projections, Map design / Cartogra- President Georg Gartner. I presented a paper on into in our everyday lives. A national map phy design, Cartography theory (Map Evalua- “Geospatial data provision in a Web 2.0 world”. series or even an individual map could tion), Atlas cartography, Toponymy, Map equip us with the same qualities and pride production using GIS, Prepress design and equally well. layout using GIS, Computer assisted cartogra- Joint Board of Geospatial Information One might argue that cartography has an phy using ArcGIS and 3D GIS. Presenters were Societies (JBGIS) Meeting, Singapore Professor Ferjan Ormeling (The Netherlands) even wider, more universal influence than The Joint Board of Geospatial Information and Dr Gang-Jun Liu (Australia). In week 2 the creative arts. With its mastery of Societies (JBGIS) had an informal meeting on Manuela Schmidt (TU Wien) and I contributed representing social and environmental 18 October 2010, prior to the GSDI conference dimensions of our existence it clearly with a program on Web cartography. in Singapore. The meeting discussed issues contributes to the development of the All contributors’ universities and the that are relevant to all sister societies that human race in general. And it does it so Netherlads Cartographic Society GIN are to be comprise the Board. intuitively and so elegantly – truly some- thanked for providing the time release and thing to be proud of as cartographers. funding air travel costs for colleagues to run the The ICA’s General Assembly in Paris workshops. Permanent Committee on GIS features strongly in this newsletter. Also, the Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific response to ICC 2011’s call for papers has GeoCart’2010, Auckland, New Zealand (PCGIAP) Meeting, Singapore been overwhelming and the conference I attended the GeoCart’2010 conference in At this meeting (18 October 2010) I was promises a truly diverse and solid pro- invited to present a status report about the ICA gramme. Finally, a feature on the Map of Auckland, 1-3 September 2010. It was and our activities. the Month highlights the world’s best in organised by the New Zealand Cartographic cartography. Society. Igor Drecki and his team did a wonderful job of organising the event at GSDI conference, Singapore Igor Drecki | Editor ICA News | ICA Auckland University. Colleagues from the ICA Between 18-20 October 2010, I attended the community presented in Auckland, including GSDI conference and represented the ICA in Professor Cindy Brewer, Professor Manfred The ica news is published by the Interna- conference activities. I was invited to present a tional Cartographic Association (ICA). Buchroithner and Dr Ken Field, editor of The paper on ICA Outreach activities at a JBGIS- Cartographic Journal, an affiliated journal of focussed session. Immediate Past President, President: William Cartwright | RMIT University | ICA. I gave a keynote presentation and Professor Milan Konečný also attended the Australia delivered a conference paper.
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